90 BC

Year 90 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lupus (or, less frequently, year 664 Ab urbe condita) and the Third Year of Zhenghe. The denomination 90 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
90 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar90 BC
LXXXIX BC
Ab urbe condita664
Ancient Egypt eraXXXIII dynasty, 234
- PharaohPtolemy X Alexander, 18
Ancient Greek era172nd Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar4661
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−682
Berber calendar861
Buddhist calendar455
Burmese calendar−727
Byzantine calendar5419–5420
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
2607 or 2547
     to 
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
2608 or 2548
Coptic calendar−373 – −372
Discordian calendar1077
Ethiopian calendar−97 – −96
Hebrew calendar3671–3672
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat−33 – −32
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3011–3012
Holocene calendar9911
Iranian calendar711 BP – 710 BP
Islamic calendar733 BH – 732 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendarN/A
Korean calendar2244
Minguo calendar2001 before ROC
民前2001年
Nanakshahi calendar−1557
Seleucid era222/223 AG
Thai solar calendar453–454
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
37 or −344 or −1116
     to 
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
38 or −343 or −1115

Events

Roman Republic

Asia Minor

  • Nicomedes IV of Bithynia is defeated in battle by a coalition of Nicomedes' brother Socrates, and Mithridates VI of Pontus. Nicomedes flees to Rome.

China

  • The Xiongnu invade the Prefectures of Wuyuan and Jiuquan and kill the commandants of both Prefectures.
  • Emperor Wu of Han sends three armies against the Xiongnu under General-in-Chief Li Guangli, Ma Tong and Shang Qiucheng, marching from Wuyuan, Jiuqian and Xihe respectively. An army of Central Asian vassals of Han, under Cheng Mian, captures the king of the vassal state of Jushi, who is suspected of treachery. The Xiongnu General-in-Chief and the former Han general Li Ling fight indecisively against Shang's army.
  • Li Guangli and his in-law Prime Minister Liu Qumao seek to recommend Liu Bo, Li Guangli's nephew, as the new Crown Prince, and while Li Guangli is on campaign, Liu Qumao and his wife are executed and Li Guangli's wife imprisoned, having been charged with cursing the emperor and seeking to replace him with Liu Bo.
  • Wishing to please the emperor, Li Guangli and his 70,000 men penetrate as far as the Selenga River. A detachment crosses the river and defeats an army of 20,000 under the Xiongnu Left General-in-Chief, who is killed. However, Li Guangli is then defeated by Hulugu Chanyu's army of 50,000 in the Khangai Mountains and surrenders. Li Guangli marries Hulugu's daughter, and Emperor Wu exterminates Li's clan.[1]

Births

  • Aulus Hirtius, Roman politician and historian (d. 43 BC)
  • Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian (approximate date)
  • Pasherienptah III, Egyptian high priest (d. 41 BC)

Deaths

  • Antiochus X Eusebes, Seleucid king (approximate date)
  • Dionysios Trax, Greek grammarian (b. 170 BC)
  • Li Yannian, Chinese musician (executed by Wu of Han)
  • Pharnajom, king of Iberia (modern Georgia)

References

  1. Hung, Hing Ming (2020). The Magnificent Emperor Wu: China's Han Dynasty. pp. 233–235. ISBN 978-1628944167.
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